Okay, time to stop sulking

And from Maurice Saxby in Magpies:

'Read this great book and be intrigued.  Reread it and savour fully its mental, psychological and emotional riches.  It is worth it.'



Well, I see to have done what most bad book bloggers do. I've had a hissy fit, prompted by some less than perfect reviews on the frequently poisonous Goodreads. And to all those authors who have been trolling reviews of their own work or perhaps that of adversaries, shame on you! But I understand that there is a program out there which can actually de-anonymitise the reviews, so some trolls are in for a very nasty surprise when they discover they have been exposed as the source of the five-star rave review of their latest work. (it happened on Amazon a litle while ago.)

And I've carried on as though I'm owed a good review. Please forgive me. For a man who has written a novel using 'The nature of humour' as its theme, I've been showing a remarkable lack of humour in my posts about Tigers on the Beach of late.

As for the world's funniest joke, which I have included at the end of the novel, I told it last night at an AWG event where I was sharing a comedy panel with Steve Vizard and Peter Moon. No one laughed. And yet this is the joke that I told to Shaun Micallef, making him burst into laughter, which is what I always do when Mad as Hell is on TV. It's the funniest, sharpest, silliest show on the ABC. I honestly didn't know it was possible to shoe-horn that many jokes into a show. Mad as Hell
is quite an achievement, though I worry sometimes that worry that there are so many jokes, it might be difficult for the viewer to catch them all. Here is where ABC iView comes in handy. you can enjoy the show over and over, though I'm slow on the pause control and I still haven't worked out what the flash frames are about. (Actually, i just did manage to catch one from last night, but I don't think it would be decent rto include it on my blog. Here, instead, is a fussy old queen. Make of her what you will.